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			<h1>I&apos;m one of the crazies</h1>
			<p>Day 01043: <time>Saturday, 2018 January 13</time></p>
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	<h2>Not the same person any more</h2>
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		Whoever I&apos;ve become, I&apos;m not the same person I was a year ago.
		I don&apos;t feel like the old me at all.
		I guess now I&apos;m Alex, and before, I was <span class="redacted">[REDACTED]</span>.
		That&apos;s really the only way to explain it.
		I&apos;ve changed; metamorphosed.
		It feels so bizarre to think about, but so many of my thoughts and desires have changed over the past several months.
		I&apos;m certainly much happier this way, but I&apos;m pretty sure I&apos;m a lot less sane.
		I live in a world of crazies though, so it&apos;s not like I don&apos;t fit in better this way.
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	<h2>Visiting my mother</h2>
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		As planned, I tried to visit my mother before work.
		She wasn&apos;t around.
		I had a short shift today though, and I was able to catch her after work.
		It&apos;d be easier if she either checked her email or if she wasn&apos;t on a screwy mobile and screwy mobile service that drop messages to and from her.
		Thankfully, it seems she&apos;s started to become more reasonable on some levels lately, and she now says email is fine.
		Next time, I can reach her that way.
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		It sounds like she hasn&apos;t been doing to well lately.
		I won&apos;t go into details because that&apos;s her private matter, but I worry for her.
		I&apos;ll be meeting up with her again tomorrow, while things are somewhat slow for me.
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	<h2>Emergency contact</h2>
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		I&apos;ve come to a realisation: not having an emergency contact is not likely to affect my chances of getting hired, despite the fact that the one business refuses to let me leave that field blank.
		I honestly don&apos;t have anyone I want contacted if something happens to me.
		Just send me to the hospital, and if I&apos;m not conscious or something, let the medical professionals do what they think best.
		There does not exist someone in my life that I trust to make such decisions on my behalf; I trust strangers with medical training more than anyone I actually have a relationship with.
		Depending on what formats are accepted by the form in question, I&apos;ll probably just put <code>911</code>, &quot;no emergency contact available&quot;, or some variant of <code>+15555550101</code> and call it good.
		If I&apos;m wrong and they hold it against me, I guess so be it.
		I&apos;ll feel safer not having a contact listed in my file, so I&apos;m better off at a job that I don&apos;t need one.
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